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...Hopkins also tells friends how much he loves playing the part. And De Laurentiis has approached Tally about writing yet another Lecter screenplay--with or without a Harris book. "In Hollywood you can never say never," says Tally. "But what would it be? Hannibal Lecter in an old folks' home? As an elementary school kid? As a fetus? I don't know. Dino says, 'Maybe we'll do a television series...
...serial-killer movie. Ever since her Oscar-nominated performance in 1996's Breaking the Waves--as a beautiful young religious fanatic who talks to God while having sex with strangers--she's had critics scrambling for words like luminous. Yet her charms have never been employed for big-budget Hollywood movies, despite an illustrious resume that includes 1998's Hilary and Jackie (for which she received a second Oscar nomination) and a juicy bit in last year's Gosford Park as a rough-edged servant who drops her knickers for the master of the house...
...When the question of a big Hollywood movie would come along," says Watson, "they'd occasionally go, 'Who?' Others would go, 'Over our dead body.'" The 35-year-old actress, who has a throaty laugh several octaves below her normal speaking voice, says she was known around studios as "that mad, bad, dangerous girl who takes her clothes off and weeps a lot." But now Hollywood is taking a chance on that girl. In Red Dragon, Watson gives a heart-breaking performance as Reba, a young blind woman who seduces Ralph Fiennes' titular madman so thoroughly that he thinks twice...
Next up, Watson will produce a film she co-wrote with her husband, screenwriter Jack Waters. At the moment, she's back home in London, appearing in the Donmar Warehouse productions of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. "After Red Dragon, the biggest, most Hollywood-est movie I've ever been in, this opportunity came up," she says. "To be able to play Viola and Sonya in the same breath--it's good." Best of all, she doesn't have to share a dressing room with a cannibal. --By Jess Cagle
...DIED. BRUCE PALTROW, 58, behind-the-scenes Hollywood veteran; from pneumonia-related complications; while on vacation with Oscar-winner daughter Gwyneth in Rome. Paltrow, husband of actress Blythe Danner, most recently directed and produced Duets, a comedy starring his daughter...